Isabella company

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The Isabella company was the code name of a German plan to invade Spain and Portugal during the Second World War . The plan was to be implemented after the collapse of the Soviet Union . The aim was to secure bases in Spain and Portugal for the continuation of the sea blockade of Great Britain. This concept was drafted by Hitler in May 1941, but never implemented.

background

Isabella was an early development version of a smaller invasion plan later called Company Ilona. Similar to the related company Felix , the plan envisaged the invasion of mainland Spain and the conquest of Portugal, Gibraltar and other operational bases in the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands . In contrast to Felix, Isabella assumed that the Spanish armed forces would at least be benevolent towards the cause of the Axis powers and that the actual invasion of Spain would only be started to help the Spanish in the event of an Allied invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. In order to secure the company's southern flank, the Wehrmacht should also conquer the Vichy-French port of Dakar in North Africa. The strategic objective of the operation would be to prevent the British from using convoy routes to and from the Middle East and India via both the Suez Canal and Gibraltar and around the Cape of Good Hope .

Although the plan never went into effect, General Franz Halder mentions in his notes that a logistical base for the invasion was established in Bordeaux .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stanley G. Payne (1987). The Franco regime, 1936–1975. Univ. of Wisconsin Press .; P. 314
  2. ↑ Christopher Chant; The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II; Routledge; P. 93
  3. ^ Gerard F. Rutan (1970). "Hitler's Frustrated Conquest". University of Portland Review. Portland: University of Portland. Pp. 3-5

literature

  • Christopher Chant; The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II; Routledge; P. 354
  • Gerard F. Rutan; Hitler's Frustrated Conquest; in: University of Portland Review; Volume 22; Pp. 3-17
  • Stanley G. Payne; The Franco regime, 1936–1975; Univ. of Wisconsin Press; P. 677